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    King's Company fell into difficulties due to mismanagement, the Duke's Company joined with them to form the United Company in 1682, under the Duke's Company's...
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  • It existed from 1660 to 1682, when it merged with the Duke's Company to form the United Company. On 21 August 1660, King Charles II granted Thomas Killigrew...
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    Sauer Company in 1929. In 1929, the C.F. Sauer Company in Richmond, Virginia, purchased Duke's products and Duke's Mayonnaise became the company's flagship...
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    of Duke since 2009, having joined Duke in the 2006 Cinergy merger. Rogers' retirement was part of an agreement to end an investigation into Duke's Progress...
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    business name. In 1994, the company was acquired by Pepsi, which relaunched the Duke's brand in 2011 through its Indian subsidiary. Duke and Sons was founded...
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    London theatre companies throughout her successful career: from 1675 in the Duke's Company, 1682 – 1695 in the monopoly United Company, and from 1695...
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    two companies to perform "legitimate drama" in London: the Duke's Company of his brother, The Duke of York, led by William Davenant, and his company, the...
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    1676 she emerged from retirement for one busy year with the Duke's Company. For that company, she played: Octavia in Edward Ravenscroft's The Wrangling...
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    institutions of higher learning. Today, Duke University offers the Benjamin Newton Duke Scholars program in honor of Benjamin Duke's life and philanthropy. "The B...
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    treason in 1681. It was staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The original cast included James Nokes as Sir Timothy Treatall, Thomas...
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    restoration of the monarchy in 1660, two patent companies (the King's Company and the Duke's Company) were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire...
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  • Edward Ravenscroft. It was performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The original cast included Cave Underhill as Wiseacre, James Nokes...
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    benefactor of Duke University, Washington Duke (1820–1905), and his second wife, Artelia Roney. Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his...
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  • London theatres with royal patents were opened: the King's Company and the Duke's Company. This interregnum substantially changed the practice of theatre...
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    mismanagement, the Duke's Company joined with them to form the United Company in 1682, managed by the Duke's Company leaders. The United Company began performances...
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  • The Black Prince. In 1682, when the King's Company joined with the Duke's Company to form the United Company, Hart retired due to poor health, with a pension...
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    suffered in 1682 when the more successful Duke's Company absorbed the struggling King's Company to form the United Company. Production of new plays dropped off...
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    restoration of the monarchy in 1660, two patent companies—the King's Company and the Duke's Company—were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire...
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    Ruperta's birth, returning to the stage in 1676 with the prestigious Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre, near the Strand in London. The next year...
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  • William Davenant's troupe of actors, the Duke's Company, with the innovation of stage scenery. The Duke's Company have recently moved from the Salisbury...
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    from J. B. Duke's holdings in the American Tobacco Company, the precursor of the Duke Power Company. Duke spent her early childhood at Duke Farms, her...
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  • theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew, and a Duke's Company under the patronage of his brother, the Duke of...
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  • publications of 1682. In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors. In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine...
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    the restoration of a hydroelectric power generator. The Duke is a sponsor of the NCEA Duke's Secondary School. On 8 April 2014, despite the vast wealth...
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    restoration of the monarchy in 1660, two patent companies (the King's Company and the Duke's Company) were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire...
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    "little girl" referred to several times in playbills before 1688 for the Duke's Company, where Thomas Betterton was the big star. For this reason it has been...
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    Othello to the Duke's residence, where he accuses Othello of seducing Desdemona by witchcraft. Othello defends himself before the Duke of Venice, Brabantio's...
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    Theatre (redirect from Theater company)
    previous to his reign. In 1660, two companies were licensed to perform, the Duke's Company and the King's Company. Performances were held in converted...
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    retired from the stage in 1682, when the King's Company joined with the Duke's Company to form the United Company. He had trouble obtaining his pension; his...
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    Fields in 1661, Davenant, the patentee of the Duke's Company, engaged Betterton and all Rhodes's company to play in his The Siege of Rhodes. Also in 1661...
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